Release Notes

openSIS version 5.0 ( July 16, 2012 )

The following list outlines some of the features that were added and some of the notable defects that were fixed. Besides these, several small UI adjustments were made and SQL fine tuning were done and small defects were fixed.

New Features

Teacher reassignment to a course period. If a teacher leaves the school, another teacher can take over the class and will have access to all assignments and attendance records

Teacher impersonation added. Admin can use a teacher’s username and admin password to impersonate a teacher

Admin/Counselor can now generate composite progress report of students

Password in the system should be minimum 8 characters with one numeric and one special character

User’s password cannot be same as admin’s

Multi Scheduling feature for courses has been added

All associated contacts for a student can be printed as a report

Rollover has been simplified and made automatic so that users can roll over school in one click

Displaying class rank in reports are made optional

Database backup utility from tools have been upgraded to include stored procedures and triggers

Data structure is now Windows and Linux compatible

Calendars with events marked for specific roles can be created now - example: a staff calendar with staff events can be created and those events will not show for students, parents

For student rollover, default enrollment and drop codes added

Student enrollment records are now shown in multiple rows

While creating student custom fields, the list of default system fields are shown

Defects Fixed

Composite transcript is correctly generated with inter school transfer

When there are multiple schools, teachers with access to one school sees portal notes from other schools

If a teacher creates an assignment category and other teachers are seeing that and adding grades to it, one teacher can see and use the assignments created by other teachers

When a student is transferred from School A to School B at the end of the running year the student is not found in School B

When you added a new school in openSIS and trying to create course periods for FY, the FY option is not coming in the marking period dropdown. however, FY remains in group scheduling and in other places

While copying a school, if the School periods and marking periods options are unchecked, a new school would be created but with no tabs

While creating an Advanced Report for a student if the Gender field is checked, it gives a database error

Student Goals does not show up in Students >> Reports >> Print Student Info. gave a goal and a progress for a particular student. its printing in Students >> Reports >> Print Goals & Progresses but does not print in Students >> Reports >> Print Student Info

System is not providing an ability to select the Student's primary and secondary contacts and their details to be generated in a list and download in excel

Student Search Screen Grade Filtration not working correctly

Incorrect attendance count in report card - while creating a report card if Year-to-date Daily Absences and Daily Absences this Marking Period is checked, in the report card both shows different values

Enter eligibility entry times for teachers and they stay as editable. It should go in browse mode

Missing Values after roll over is performed

Search all school does not work for student grade level value

The teacher completion report is suppose to show the list of course periods for which the teacher has not entered final grades

Group by Family option does not work properly, shows incorrect data after search

Ignore scheduling switch does not work sometimes

New Teachers joined and getting Missing Attendance Alert

DB error after deleting assignments

No alert is showing up while Inputting final grades for sem1 even if the grade posting ended

Release Notes

openSIS is a new paradigm in student management software - it is all about the student. openSIS focuses on capturing relevant data at source and helps administration to monitor progress and remediate deficiencies to retain students and increase their achievements.